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If I stood there long enough, she’d tellto ain, aren’t you?" She forced a smile "Asher is a problem"

I waited "And?"

"And," she said, as if she were talking to so or very slow, "you fix problems"

"Iwhat?" My voice rose up on that last word All around us, people were beginning to stare

Eh mine, like ere the best of friends "You solve probleo"

"You have a job fortothatup the wrong tree here, Emilia"

"So you’re not the Tess Kendrick that Anna Hayden is swearing is a miracle worker?" Another eyebrow arch "Anna’s not exactly sharing what theirl Ihelpedyesterday--"

"Hayden comma Anna" Eest daughter, and the only person at this school with a Secret Service escort?"

I flashed back to the day before I re and scared and vulnerable and pissed The one thing I hadn’t thought was that she looked familiar She’d never told me her name

Emilia snorted "You honestly expectto the rescue of the vice president’s daughter with no idea of who she was?"

No wonder Anna had been freaking out--and thank God that jerk whose phone I’d confiscated hadn’t e-mailed the pictures of her to anyone I didn’t even want to think about the kind of ht have kicked up if he had

"Believe what you want," I told Emilia "I’oing on with your brother--"

"Asher," she supplied

"I can’t help you," I said firmly

"I’ll pay you" Emilia clearly wasn’t acquainted with the word no--but the two of theht cozy

"I don’t want your money" I pushed past her--successfully this time--and she amended her offer

"I’ll owe you"

I wondered who or what I had offended in a previous life to end up in this position: sister of famed fixer Ivy Kendrick, endorsed as a hter

"Sorry, Eirl"

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